People with Fishy Names Trivia Quiz

Answer: T.J. Bass

"Half Past Human" was nominated for a Nebula Award. Lance Bass sang in the American musical group 'N Sync. Ronald J. Bass is an American screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Rain Man." Alfred Bass was an English actor who played Yoine Shagal in Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers."

Answer: Robert (Bob) Trout

Robert Trout (1909-2000) was the first broadcaster to report United States congressional hearings live and the first to broadcast from an airplane in mid-air. Jennie Kidd Trout (1841-1921) was the first woman ever licensed to practice medicine in Canada. Monroe Trout was an American investment manager who championed the ideas of Ayn Rand. Steven Russell "Rainbow" Trout was the son of a professional baseball pitcher who himself pitched for the Chicago Cubs in the 1980s.

Answer: Jim "Catfish" Hunter

Keith is a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Cole was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the Carolinas in the 1950s who was sent to prison for his campaigns against Blacks and Native Americans. Metkovich was a Major League outfielder from 1943-1954 who later appeared in several movies.

He earned his nickname by stepping on a catfish in an attempt to remove a hook from its mouth and stabbing his foot with its fin, which wound took him out of Spring Training.

Answer: A former chairman of the FCC (USA) who described television as "a vast wasteland"

FCC = Federal Communications Commission (U.S.)
Olivia Newton-John was married to Matt Lattanzi and had one child, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, born in 1986. Charles M. Rosser invented the fig newton and sold the recipe to Kennedy Biscuit Works (later called Nabisco) which used an invention by James Henry Mitchell to mass produce the cookies. The theory of universal gravitation was the work of Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727).

Answer: Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was an abolitionist lawyer, United States senator, Ohio governor, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States. Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) was an American science-fiction novelist who also wrote scripts for "Star Trek." James Whale (1889-1957) was a Hollywood director with such films as "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein," and "The Invisible Man" to his credit. Petre P. Carp (1837-1919) was the Prime Minister of Romania from 1900-1901 and 1911-1912.

Answer: Thomas Herring

Thomas Herring ((1693-1757) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1747 until his death. Richard A. Whiting (1891-1938) wrote popular songs such as "Sleepy-time Gal," "Ain't We Got Fun," "Breezin' Along With the Breeze," "Beyond the Blue Horizon," "On the Good Ship Lollipop" and "Too Marvelous for Words." Richard Marlin Perkins (1905-1986) was a zoologist who hosted the television wildlife series "Wild Kingdom." Edwin Taylor Pollock (1870-1943) was a US naval officer who served as governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and later of American Samoa.

Answer: Thomas Gordon Hake

Thomas Gordon Hake (1809-1895) was called Doctor Hake, by the circle of friends gathered around Rossetti in 19th Century England, because he practiced medicine before devoting himself to poetry. Alan Hake is a rock musician and record company executive. Edward Hake was a 16th Century English religious and political satirist who also translated Thomas a Kempis and composed a metrical version of the Psalms.

Herb Hake was an American author ("101 Stories of Cedar Falls") and radio-television producer and personality.

Answer: Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr.

"Hal" Roach, Sr. (1892-1992) produced films with Harold Lloyd, Will Rogers, the Our Gang kids, and Laurel & Hardy. Archie Roach is an Australian musician, singer and songwriter who raised the issue of the treatment of Aboriginal children through his music. Paul Roach is a football coach who led the University of Wyoming to its best season record and then went on to coach in the NFL. Clifford Archibald Roach (1904-1988) was a cricketer from Trinidad who played for West Indies in their first Test Tour of England in 1928.

He was also the last surviving member of that side.

Answer: Zebulon Pike

Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr. (1779-1813) was an American military officer and explorer who mapped much of the Louisiana Purchase. Albert Pike (1809-1891) was a Boston-born soldier who fought for the South in the American Civil War. He is the only Confederate military officer with his own statue in Washington, DC. Lipman Emanuel Pike (1845-1893) was one of the first professional all-star baseball players the 19th Century United States. Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) was the American linguist who coined the suffixes "-emic" and "-etic" to describe the study of (respectively) the subjective and objective meaning of language.

Answer: Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was born in Calcutta. His first film "Pather Panchali" won him international acclaim. Aldo Ray (1926-1991) was an Italian-American film actor who specialized in playing military characters. He is perhaps best remembered for his role, with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov, in "We're No Angels" (1955). Johnnie Ray (1927-1990) was a popular American singer (and songwriter) whose work anticipated rock-n-roll. Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) was an American film director well known for his many motion pictures in the film noir genre, and for the 1955 James Dean movie "Rebel Without a Cause."